"Six months of being on location or being off in Morocco or someplace like that is not the best thing for a relationship," he said.

Perhaps some time off can alleviate that?

DiCaprio plays Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's legendary 1920s character, in Baz Luhrmann's opulent adaptation of the novel. The actor and director previously worked together on 1996's "Romeo + Juliet." But their latest film operates on a "choose-your-own interpretation of who these people are," DiCaprio told The Times of Fitzgerald's iconic characters manifested on screen.

"What makes 'Gatsby' the book that it is," the actor said, "is that people still have conversations about it."

"When you make a movie, you have to be much more specific about everything you do," DiCaprio continued to Extra. "You have to make choices as an actor and as a storyteller that dramatize these brilliant chapters. I think it's a risk, just in the sense that it's so beloved, and you're almost setting yourself up for criticism in a lot of ways."

Luhrmann said he is acutely aware of those risks.

"I have one duty -- to the best of my ability to captain the storytelling team, and to tell and reveal the story," he said at the film's New York premiere Wednesday. "I set out to reveal 'The Great Gatsby,' but I also set out to do a movie of it."

In addition to Carey Mulligan as Gatsby's lady love, Daisy Buchanan (she and DiCaprio share a pretty steamy kiss), the movie costars Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher. The 3-D flick is set to open May 10.

NEW YORK -- Women in bob cuts and extensive hair plumage and men in bowties and exaggerated facial expressions were dancing and throwing their arms in the air, 1920’s style, amid the crowd of Manolo-clad partygoers, who were eating seafood hors d’oeuvres and snapping photos with...

A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new host of "The Daily Show," his graphic tweets targeting women and Jews are causing a social media backlash and Comedy Central is defending its newest late-night star.

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